じょ

See also: しょ

Japanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑo̞]

Etymology 1

Syllable

じょ • (jo) 

1. The hiragana syllable じょ (jo). Its equivalent in katakana is ジョ (jo).

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of じょ – see the following entries.

【女】1 [noun] a woman, especially an actress or a prostitute [proper noun] (Chinese astronomy) the Girl constellation, one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions [suffix] (historical) suffixed to names of female figures in the Edo period

【𥝱】H [number] A trillion trillion, 1024, or a septillion of modern English in modern Japanese since 17th century.

【助】3 [prefix] help [prefix] assistant

(This term, じょ (jo), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as じょ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as じょ.)

(The following entry is uncreated: 序.)